The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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